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10 Reasons Self-Publishers Should Avoid Selling to Bookstores

Updated September 5, 2023 Subtitle Getting bookstores to accept your book and give it shelf space is time-consuming, difficult to achieve, and costly Synopsis Getting bookstores to accept your book and give it shelf space is time-consuming, difficult to achieve, … Continue reading

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2 Amazon Marketing Tools to Help Make Your Book a Financial Success

Synopsis Amazon provides two very powerful and easy-to-use tools to get our books in front of millions of potential readers and buyers. Together these two tools help form the basic foundation of an author’s marketing plan. So, to help get … Continue reading

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10 Amazing Low-Cost Ways to Market Your Book

Updated September 24, 2023 Subtitle Practical, popular, proven-to-work, and inexpensive ways to market your book Synopsis Here is a beginner’s list of practical, popular, proven-to-work, and low-cost ways to market your book. The steps to marketing your book and deciding … Continue reading

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The Book Buyer’s Decision-Making Process

Updated January 18, 2023 Subtitle Putting yourself in your buyer’s shoes will help you sell more books Synopsis What must your book do to convince your audience to ignore the other books and buy your book? I have outlined some … Continue reading

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POD Costs and Profits Using Amazon and Lightning Source

Here is a simply analysis of selling a book using Amazon and Lightning Source. This analysis will show you how much money you will get for each book that you sell on Amazon. This will help you understand how Amazon and Lightning take their cut, and what you end up with. Continue reading

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Book Industry Product Identifiers: ASIN, EAN, GTIN, And ISBN: A Guide For Self-Publishers

Introduction
Here is a quick primer on the different book identification numbers and barcodes that self-publishers need to know about. Each one is used throughout the world as a way to identify a specific book. Continue reading

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